How Yale SOM Climbed Into The Top Ten

‘WE ARE BECOMING THE MOST GLOBAL BUSINESS SCHOOL IN THE U.S.’

“Our global strategy, unlike other school strategies, impacts the whole school and the MBA program in particular,” explains Dean Snyder. “Our efforts resulted in several increased measures in the FT’s diversity and international reach rankings component. We anticipate that these increases will continue as we further expand our activities with the Global Network for Advanced Management and our Master of Advanced Management program grows to its steady-state size of 60 students. We are becoming the most global business school in the U.S.”

Many of these changes had a very positive impact on the 20% of the methodology tied directly to the FT’s international metrics: International students now compose 40% of the enrollment (up from 37%), while international members on the school’s advisory board now represent 38% of the total (up from 28% in 2013 and only 12% in 2012)–the latter a result of a Global Diversity Advisory Council established by Snyder. Meantime, the international mobility rank accorded Yale’s graduates is also significantly better, giving the school a rank of 58, up from 73 a year earlier. Says Snyder: “The number of Yale MBA students who took internships outside the United States in countries where they were not citizens rose to 21, from 17; in total, 37 students took internships outside the United States.” That, in turn, boosted SOM’s mobility rank by 15 spots.

The school’s rank for “international course work”–calculated according to whether the most recent graduating MBA class completed exchanges, research projects, study tours and company internships in countries other than where the school is based– moved up an impressive eight places to 40 from 48 in 2013 and 52 in 2012. Snyder attributes those gains to the introduction of global immersion weeks which initially involved five schools from his global network and in March will engage a dozen different institutions in such countries as Turkey, Israel, China, Japan and Spain.

What The FT Measures & How Yale Has Performed Over The Years

Source: The Financial Times’ 2014 Global MBA Ranking